Peers

Examples

• They were rather on the level of the great land-owning dukes and peers of France and England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr Venus, always in exceedingly low spirits and making whimpering sounds, peers about for the stuffed canary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Even in good men there is such an irregular wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. Plato. The Republic.
• An ample estate was allotted to them, and they took the first rank among the peers of Great Britain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Twelve cannon cast by Louis VII were named after the twelve peers of France, and Charles V gave twelve others the names of the twelve apostles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Did you never observe how the mind of a clever rogue peers out of his eyes, and the more clearly he sees, the more evil he does? Plato. The Republic.
• Philip was a king after the old pattern, a leader-king, first among his peers, of the ancient Nordic Aryan type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It has even been suggested in Britain that there should be labour peers, selected from among the leaders of the great industrial trade unions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Henry